The Children of Spider County

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The Outer Limits episode
“The Children of Spider County”
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 21
Guest star(s) Lee Kinsolving
Kent Smith
John Milford
Crahan Denton
Bennye Gatteys
Writer(s) Anthony Lawrence
Director Leonard Horn
Cinematographer Kenneth Peach
Production no. 25
Original airdate February 17, 1964
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"The Children of Spider County" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 17 February 1964, during the first season.

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[edit] Opening narration

"In light of today's growing anxieties, it has become more absolute that the wealth of a nation consists in the number of superior men that it harbors. It is therefore a matter of deep concern, and deeper consequence, when four of the most magnificent and promising young minds in the country suddenly disappear off the face of the Earth..."

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Forthcoming.

[edit] Closing narration

"The wealth of a nation, of a world, consists in the number of superior men that it harbors, and often it seems that these men are too different, too dreaming. And often, because they are driven by powers and dreams strange to us, they are driven away by us. But are they really so different? Are they not, after all, held by the same things that hold us-by strong love, and soft hands?"


[edit] Cast

  • Lee Kinsolving – as Ethan Wechsler
  • Dabbs Greer – as Bishop
  • Kent Smith – as Aable
  • Burt Douglas – as Man
  • Crahan Denton – as Sheriff Simon Stakefield
  • Bennye Gatteys – as Anna Bishop
  • Joey Tata – as Deputy
  • Robert Osterloh – as General
  • John Milford – as John Bartlett
  • Roy Engel – as Officer (uncredited)
  • Joseph Perry – as Greenbane (uncredited)
  • William O'Douglas, Jr. – as Alien (uncredited)

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